World culture
Dream On Family Festival
A celebration of culture, creativity and wellbeing. Come and explore our beautiful village of bell tents filled with activities and workshops to inspire all ages. A space for different generations to have fun alongside each other. Limber up. Let go. Laugh loud. A safe and secure festival site filled with colour and art installations. You...
Liverpool’s longest-running radical writing festival returns this May!
In the grip of a climate emergency, while culture wars and real wars rage, ‘WOWFEST: Fahrenheit 2024 – The temperature at which the world burns’ is an arena for ideas and a call to action. Featuring Irvine Welsh, Beatrix Campbell, Jon Ronson, Jackie Kay, Jah Wobble, Salena Godden, Peter Hooton, Joelle Taylor, Andrew McMillian, Paul...
Africa Oyé announces Julian Marley & Les Amazones d’Afrique for summer 2024
The son of music legend Bob Marley and a female supergroup will headline the acclaimed Africa Oyé Festival this summer. The powerful and creative force of Les Amazones d’Afrique will close proceedings on Saturday 22nd June, whilst Julian Marley, fresh off his Grammy win for Best Reggae Album earlier this month, tops the bill on Sunday with his band, The Uprising....
Artist and design revealed for plaque to mark abolitionist Frederick Douglass at the Everyman
164 years since the prominent abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke at Hope Hall (now the site of the Everyman Theatre), Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse have revealed Liverpool born artist and designer Vicki Opomu has been awarded the commission for a commemorative plaque on the front of the theatre. Her design featuring Frederick Douglass and the quote...
The Broadway hit musical Play On! comes to Liverpool as part of Talawa’s Black Joy Season
Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, along with its associate company Talawa Theatre, are taking audiences back to the vibrant jazz scene of 1940s New York with Play On!. A retelling of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, created as part of Talawa’s Black Joy 2024, the musical celebrates Black stories and artists from Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 October...
Ukrainian Film Festival “Our Land”
The film festival “OUR LAND” is aimed at giving visitors the opportunity to experience and understand Ukrainian culture and history and to learn about ordinary and famous people in Ukraine through the creative skills of Ukrainian cinematographers. A selection of feature films and documentary short films of the “Culture VS War” project will lead the...
LEAF Art Exhibition and Bridge2 Five year celebration
Join us as we celebrate 5 years of Bridge2. We are marking the occasion with the launch of the exhibition. “LEAF” at Gallery1889 helping us reflect on the issues of sustainability and the environmental care. LEAF will display pieces by artists from England, Turkey, Brazil and the US.
Let Us Be Seen
Let Us Be Seen is a rally cry demanding that people in Belfast who campaign tirelessly for change are finally seen and heard. It is a splash of colour, showcasing the creative ways individuals provide an alternative to the binary politics in Belfast, deploying a unique local blend of gallows humour in the face of adversity....
Africa Oyé
This summer, the son of music legend Bob Marley, Julian Marley, and a female supergroup, Les Amazones d’Afrique, will headline the acclaimed Africa Oyé Festival this summer. Africa Oyé, the UK’s largest free celebration of African music and culture, takes place annually in Liverpool. Beginning in 1992 as a series of small gigs in the...
Chinese New Year at Chamber 36
Chamber 36 have teamed up with Ming River & The Baiju Society with some fantastic drink specials to commemorate the Chinese New Year. Kicking off the weekend they will host their very own in-house traditional Chinese Lion Dances on the Friday and Saturday by Liverpool’s amazing Liverpool Ching Wu, followed by their fabulous drinks service...